Harmful interaction between the living and the dead in Greek tragedy / Bridget Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Bridget, author.

Series:

Exeter medieval texts and studies

Exeter Medieval texts and studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Ghosts in literature.

Dead in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 216 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Examining the manifest and invisible dead, this book considers the nature, extent and limitations of harmful interaction between the living and the dead in Greek tragedy, concentrating on the abilities of the dead, the consequences of corpse exposure and mutilation, and the use of avenging agents by the dead.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A framework: The Homeric and contemporary dead

1.1. Introduction

1.2. The Homeric dead

1.3. The contemporary fifth-century dead

1.4. Conclusion

2. The tragic dead: The witless and/or the aware

2.1. Introduction

2.2. The scale of awareness

2.2.1. Death is oυδεν

2.2.2. Egocentric awareness

2.2.3. Family reunion

2.2.4. A (hierarchical) society of the dead

2.2.5. Postmortem rewards and punishments

2.2.6. Prophetic knowledge

2.2.7. The manifest dead

2.3. Conclusion

3. The how and the why of interaction: The manifest evidence

3.1. Introduction

3.2. The living interacting with the dead: Necromancy

3.2.1. Darius in Aeschylus' Persians

3.2.2. Teiresias in Aeschylus' Psychagogoi

3.2.3. Agamemnon in Aeschylus' Choephori

3.3. The dead interacting with the living: Dreams

3.3.1. Clytemnestra in Aeschylus' Eumenides

3.3.2. Polydorus in Euripides' Hecuba

3.4. Spontaneous interaction: Achilles in Euripides' Hecuba

3.5. Conclusion

4. The living harming the dead: Exposure, mutilation and exclusion

4.1. Introduction

4.2. A concern for the living

4.3. Burial and exposure: Extent and limitations

4.3.1. Burial

4.3.2. Exposure and mutilation

4.4. Physical harm in the Underworld

4.5. Exposure before enemies: Remembering and dismembering

4.6. Exclusion from/within the Underworld

4.7. Conclusion

5. The dead harming the living: Autonomy and agents

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Autonomous revenge from the dead

5.3. Olympian agents

5.4. The Erinyes

5.5. Living agents

5.5.1. Agamemnon in Aeschylus' Choephori

5.5.2. Achilles in Euripides' Hecuba

5.6. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-216)

ISBN:

178962150X

9781789621501

OCLC:

1119744684